Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Szell, George

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Whiteman, Paul

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Stravinsky, Igor

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Johnson, James Weldon

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Camus, Albert

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Franklin, Aretha

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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I hate music, especially when it's played.

Jimmy Durante

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

Lennon, John

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider